The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


to be the Oldest native,b born resident OF Chicago:
! He is the son of Mark Beaubein, known ftty
| years ago as The Chicago fiddler. "
THE largest table ever made from a single
| plank belongs to the Illinois Club, of Chicago.
| The plank is Is feet long and . wide, ana was
cut from California redwood tree.
A NUMBER of physicians in the City of Mexico
have adopted the plan of keeping a lantern
burning in front of their houses all night to
! show that they will answer night calls.
MANY California women cultivate fruit farms.
They can do much of the work, such as picking,
packing, making raisins and canning fruit:
Cyystallized figsand apricotS are the products OF
womans labor, as well as jellies, jams and mar
malade.
UNCLE JOHN B. HOLLIS, of Cohasset, Mass,
who is 92 years old and has but one arm, aston
ished the proprietor of Boston shooting gal
lery the other day by making bulls-eye after
bull s-eye off hand, resting the rifle on the
wooden stump that takes the place OF the lost
limb.
THE Sheriff of Garfield county, Col, furnishes
this specimen of Western Justice: When he re-
turned to the officers of Mesa county the writ
upon which one David Beach was to have been
arrested, he Endorsed the following upon it: Il
do hereby certify that l have executed the
within writ by killing the within David Beach"
The Chinese, as they acquire civilized ideas
concerning trade lodges, reduce the number OF
crackers III a pack, or which there are ~ TO q
crate. Originally there were 100 in each; then
there were 80, then so. Last year there were
r. and now it is lower than ever, having got
down to 80. But even now they are absurdly
cheap.
ApRopos of the boom il: the West, it is said
| that eleven years ago a woman bought forty
| three acres OF land in Pasadena Los Angeles
county Cal, for $40 an acre. She has since sold
off ten acres in small lots at prices ranging from
| $1,000 to $4,000 an acre, and has been offered
$3.50 900 for the thirty three which still re-
main in her possession.
THERE is nothing new under the sun. In the
city archives of Nuremberg is kept velocipede
| of the year 1888, and in old book dated 1703
entitled Historical Accounts of the Nuremberg
| Mathematical Artists occurs this passage:
stephen Farflers, of Altdorf, went to work and
| constructed little wagon on three wheels, in
| which, by means of an artistical arrangement,
| he managed to drive to church without any as
sistance." Hence the tricycle. is only the revi-
val of an old invention.
| THE train was approaching a considerable
| station. In seat young lady sat alone;
| across the aisle from her sat would-be masher.
| Just before the train stopped he arose. and adj
dressing her said, - beg pardon, but l will take
| a seat with you. if you prefer. as crowd Will
| get in here, and some Objectionable person may
occupy it" Thank you, sir said she, but no
| one can get i'll at this station with whom am
| less acquainted than with you The WOuld-be
! gallant retired discounted to his own side of
! the car, and the young lady continued to occupy
| her seat without disturbance.
| THE ST. james Gazette tells that horse trot-
| ting through the Leipzig strasse, Berlin, the
other day, cast one of his hind shoes; the speed
at which he was going communicating sufficient
| impetus to it to send it crashing through shop
| window some yards off. At some little distance
| inside the pane stood a statue of the Emperor,
| which had been placed there on the occasion of
the recent feter and the shoe fell exactly at the
| foot of the statue. The lucky omen as they
gard it, is said to have impressed the Berlinese
| almost as profoundly though of course in a diff
! ferent way, the eclipse of the sun which pre-
ceded Caesars death did the Romans.
A LEADING ready-made clothing establishment
| in New York city pays its designer, an Irish
man, salary of $500 year. He was getting
| S. coo a year in Boston when he received the
| offer of the increase from the New York house.
| He is employed but few hours a day, but
| turns out very readily a sufficient number of
| crayon suggestions, emphasized by shears, to
| keep ahead of score of cutters and hundreds
| of sewing tailors. He is an expert in coats,
vests and trousers and is familiar with all sizes
| OF the ordinary every day man. He is by neces-
| mathematical precision but i'll an apparently
ree-and-easy outline style. In his way he is
| genius to which enterprise pays tribute.
| THE largest British garrison at any station
| outside of the United Kingdom is at Malta and
consists at present of $3.50 officers and men.
| Gibraltar comes next with $3.50. But Gibraltar
| is a much smaller place than Malta and soldiers
| there are about as thick as sailors ON a man-of-
| war. The total number of British troops in
! Egypt is only 300. In Cape Colony and Natal
| there are 1896 officers and men; 1714 at Hong
| Kong; 1857 in the straits settlements; and 1456
at Halifax, n. s. AS rule the colonies do not
| pay anything toward the cost of the troops pro-
! vided for their defense. There are exceptions
| 900, Ceylon $4,000, and Malta 5000. Mauri-
| thus, whose garrison only number 534, pays f15,-
| 600 out of the 900 which the garrison costs
| annually.
TT is reckoned," says the San Francisco
| Bulletin, that the East will consume this year
100000 gallons of California wine-say 900 goo
cases. OF this probably at least one-half will be
| sold as French wine In q New York restaurant
| if a consumer asks for bottle of California
| wine he will be given a miserable article made
| perhaps from the Mission grape; when he re-
| jects this he will be given instead bottle
| labeled ST. Julien, which was probably made
| from some California grapes, perhaps grown
| in the same vineyard as the Mission grapes, but
carefully manufactured, blended and ripened.
| He will Immediately descant on the superiority
| of foreign wine, and will dwell pityingly on the
| slow progress which California is making in
! producing really fine wines. When he is next
advised TO try California wine he will decline
with emphasis, remembering his former ex-
! perlence."
TIE Figaro, of Paris attributes the historic say
! ing ''Finis Polonioe!' to Count Felix Drohoiow-
| ski, who died a fortnight ago at Sevres. The
| Count, says the 50 James Gazette, was prime
| mover in the Polish insurrection of 1881, and
| managed TO escape to France, where he earned
| his living as a professor of languages, all his
| property having been confscated If Droho-
| jowski ever uttered the famous exclamation
| which the French journal fathers on him he
| can only have done so at second hand for Kos
! cusko is credited with having uttered the iden-
teal words after the disastrous battle of Macie-
| jowice, which was fought in 1894. Koscusko, it
| is true, enphatically repudiated having said or
| thought anything of the sort; and it is not
known for certain how the phrase got its footing
| III history. Drohojowski did, however. deliver
| himself of an exclamation in 1881 which attain
| ed a certain celebrity I'VE shall succumb for
| God Is too high and France is too far
A RICH strike of lead has just been made in
| Franklin county, Mo, section about fifty
miles from st. Louis, which has been renowned
for half century for its mineral wealth in
lead, zinc and iron, and where the first discoy-
cries of lead were made in that State So far
in the new strike there has been only twenty
feet of development and that has revealed a
solid vein of lead eight feet high and at least six
feet broad Occasionally streak of dirt is seen
on the face of this vein. Picks have been driven
into these narrow seams wherever they appear
and that test has shown the dirt TO be very shall.
low, as the point Of the pick could only be
have been discovered leading Off from this
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